misery of her merkel in portugal the german chancellor is greeted with public anger and blame for the austerity straggling their country that follows mass protests in greece against the cuts demanded by into the national lenders. rebels say a highly militarized syrian war may see extra weapons flow into their hands while crowds are already appearing in what was hailed as a united opposition front. and more heads roll at the b.b.c. now the news chief and her deputy are stepping aside over the broadcasters botched handling of child abuse claims.

world news live from our moscow headquarters are watching r t with me lucy catherine of the protests are starting in portugal's capital lisbon where chancellor angela merkel is visiting people there blame the german leader for their nation's economic hardships the country has had to adopt severe austerity measures to receive a bailout that was worth about eighty billion euros last year and artie's own sara furthur is on the ground in the portuguese capital sorrow describe to us what you're seeing and feeling there unless ben. well portugal's finances once again back under the spotlight that those are rife with meetings with the country's president prime minister the meeting coming to the critical time in the country just ahead of the toughest and the budget everything kind support your goals and of course in two days' time we're going to see portugal joined by over a year are you saying concave including spain angry thin

a year. white general strike and now the chancellor is expected to deliver yet another message just to pull for the tough ostara he measures that the government has been pushing for if it comes at a vital time we see the prime minister very very supportive in the polls saying that the only way for the country to get out of the debt crisis is to sit and think today's very strict budget goes through with that under the seventy eight billion year ideal for that bailout and now today they're going to be having that meeting but at the same time we've really seen the public need here in portugal siring in the punt they didn't julie to fairly prove consensus only just thirty measures and that of really motorists don't trust a country such as great as he said we've really seen the me turning here today as anglo-american is motorcade pulled up at the presidential palace we have a fairly small crowd of protesters here but a lot of chancing and doing one of the signs read merkel is just not working

a message that people in the country really starting to feel that they asperity measure is having a very negative impact unemployment here is up to a record level of fifteen percent the country's just about to enter is the idea of recession it's very very tough times indeed and that sort of sentiment is that kate throughout the country you seen some of the biggest protests in recent times expect more of that today certainly in the capital as angela merkel is meeting continues to launch discontent from the portugal and of course as i could see much of europe at the moment as well for we know that you'll be following those protests for us thank you so much heartiness our first reporting on the ground in lisbon. well there's more austerity pain ahead for greece which approved in next year's budget forcing new cuts on an already struggling population thousands have gathered outside parliament to protest on your budgets massive unrest against an austerity package which was voted through last week adopting both bills was

a precondition set for greece by international lenders who have been blocking a new bailout for months now while john laughlin from the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris says that greece is sacrificing its own economy to stay in the euro zone but we can see that the kinds of measures that have been imposed on greece for more than two years because this crisis has been going on for a very long time these measures are actually making the situation worse but are you calling me is in three four it's been three falls through every year and the fact is that the greek political class like the rest of the euro the class in a sense i think increases that of its own ideology. prisoner of the euro not eulogy and this ideology exerts such a power over legal that just do things which by any rational measure obviously counterproductive in order to preserve the european project of the euro

in particular. are determined to do everything to keep the single currency intact even to destroy their own country just so and you certainly want over sixty percent to put the economy into a massive recession and so on. it looks like home is not so sweet for many u.k. citizens these days we find out why more and more skilled workers are searching for better lives of broad which could leave britain scrambling professionals'. marathon talks between syria's fractured opposition in qatar scapel of doha have seen the formation of a new political body now the deal is the result of relentless pressure from the u.s. as well as european and arab allies who seem to want to see the current syrian regime toppled with a new group was tasked with unifying rebel ranks but as our paulus leader reports the plan may have been doomed from the start. this comes after days of political

wrangling amongst the various syrian opposition forces they have been under pressure from both the united states as well as arab governments to form this unified body it is a sixty member assembly but it really brings together a wide array of people and organizations with very different affiliations it is essentially a patchwork organization amongst the new leaders are sunni muslims as well as a christian former communist and among the rebel fighters are those coming from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds with many asking the question whether or not that infighting and whether or not those ethnic and political differences can be put aside the goal is really to try and organize a bit of fines and also potentially to send went to the syrian opposition within the country and we're already hearing from one opposition member countries such as bush and from germany the united states qatar and saudi arabia have pledged weapons to the syrian opposition and this is increasing concern in the international

community that what we could see happening now in syria is merely a repeat of what we saw happening in libya not so long ago at that time the opposition called for itself to be recognized as the sole legitimate government of libya and we're hearing the same kind of court coming amongst the syrian opposition today what happened in libya was once that recognition came from the international community it led to foreign intervention so now we're hearing britain has pledged that hundreds of u.k. soldiers will be deployed to syria if the situation there worsens so increasing concern that the situation in syria well ultimately be a repeat of libya and lead to foreign intervention. some analysts are questioning how much the newly formed rebel coalition is take into account the interests of the syrian people. from the very beginning of the conflict in syria the big question is how much influence do these groups outside of syria actually have within syria and i shrink as i started running to say that they don't have widespread support within

syria i think a fundamental point which is being raised. to the future affairs of an independent software in country are being discussed by showing governments in a foreign country that is absolutely right just we're talking about the united nations the pillars of the united nations state so currency being completely undermines i mean if there was a domestic crisis for example in spain would it be acceptable for foreign governments to convene in rome the capital bit silly to discuss your affairs of spain it's absolutely outrageous and it's also the legal ones are international who are. well another sign of the conflict spreading beyond syria israel has been filing firing missiles over the border for the second consecutive day now this after one of its bases was hit by a syrian mortar shell it was the first time that israeli forces have fired into syrian territory and why than forty years and more on that for you on our web site

r.t. dot com. it looks like the b.b.c. is in a bad way botched journalism false child abuse accusations and the revelations of decades of paedophilia and that seeing a wave of key executives feel the heat the broadcasters head of news and her deputy are just the latest to step aside this comes days after the director general had quit let's get on the floor smith who is with us in long laura these these executives are citing a chain of command problems as the reason for stepping aside but do you buy that.

well i don't really know i mean a lot of people think on the streets i've been out on the street this morning talking to people about what they think and they hope that this will solve the problems that. seemed to be so prevalent to the moment in the b.b.c. as you say the director general george resigned over the weekend saying that he felt it was the owner of both thing to do. ultimately his fold but what might not be seen as the honorable thing to do is that he's currently taking all four hundred fifty thousand pounds of his nearly pay packets despite having been in the job only fifty four days and of course much of that fifty four days he spent some would say ineffectually trying to fight these fires that keep breaking out of the b.b.c. and that money will be paid by the taxpayer it's up to the b.b.c. trust and not the b.b.c. itself to decide but they are being asked to to rethink that and this is cool still comes in the wake of wave after wave of scandal seemingly unending wave of filth

basically just the latest thing is these allegations by a man called steve messam who said that he was repeatedly sexually abused as a child by a senior politician from the one nine hundred eighty s. while he was growing up in a children's home in wales that was reported on the b.b.c.'s flagship current affairs program news night and although it didn't name the person that steve messam was accusing the program did give rise. a frenzy of speculation all over twitter and other social networking sites which led to a former conservative policy treasurer being named lord mcalpine was eventually named on social networking sites and then went public to defend himself he said he'd never done this he very quickly denied the accusations he started to sue anyone and everyone and only was this steve messam showing a photograph of lord mcalpine and he said oh no actually i'm sorry i was mistaken

it wasn't him after all so that was a really short piece of investigative journalism that comes in the wake of that haven't been enough in itself of the jimmy savile scandal again that newsnight had done an investigation into jimmy savile who was a much loved children's entertainer back when i was growing up which essentially exposed him as a paedophile and there have been again wave after wave of allegations people coming forward saying yes jimmy savile did abuse me that program was spiked by b.b.c. leadership they were ordered to drop it at least in part because other parts of the b.b.c. were preparing a programme that said how wonderful jimmy savile was praising him in his lifelong charity work so what we have in summary is the b.b.c. failing to expose a paedophile who worked among them for years and years very closely but in a way sort to atone for that by bizarrely pointing the finger at another completely innocent man he was never a paedophile a tool and about the second investigation george the director general claimed he

had no idea at all well massive scandal certainly a spider well both intrigue here and of course questions about the effects it was going to happen the credibility for the broadcaster now earlier we actually interviewed gerard batten he's an m.e.p. from the u.k. independence party and take a look at what he says about the credibility issue for the b.b.c. be institutional more. transparent many of the stories in store. sprigs are poor and membership of the european union or mass immigration crying the riots in europe last year in london you did a very kind of left wing politically correct quasar marxist view of the world from the b.b.c. states they have an interest in presenting stories in a certain way and of course now we've got you sadly problem or that the climate professional standards that we've seen with the jimmy savile issue are now a live issue against the conservatives here so i think that you know the part of

the public are waking up to the problems with the baby since you've been apparently a long long time well that's the point of view of at least one politician in the u.k. but laura we want to know what the people on the sternness street actually think about this whole mess. well mixed reactions actually when i went out this morning we went near to one of the b.b.c.'s offices in central london and asked people what they thought very mixed reactions i mean the b.b.c. does have an enduring reputation here and of course it is the national broadcaster and i think many people feel that they've really got no option but to trust what the b.b.c. says and of course it's not just news that the b.b.c. does they do a range of programs nature documentaries etc etc so it has been a much loved it loved institution and people hope i think that this change of management will will make that be so again let's have a listen to what they said. i still follow. yeah i still i still just as he said we wouldn't deter me from using b.b.c.'s. i think you see a shift in the search is something that really is the unfortunate you can't control

the child i was asian. so i still trust you know you're going to. be free. for a while at least you know it's such a big organization i mean it's. so at the top not so great at the moment but overall internationally it's still going to great reputation and. i think it's great. so again people hope the replacement of the chain of command and this sort of talk of this enormous organization this thing which nobody really knows what the left hand doesn't really know what the right hand is doing it is worrying in itself there's a new acting director general who's been appointed this morning and he's just been on the news asking for time to get used to his new job and to sort this out it's not clear that he's going to be accorded that are i was certainly a blow to the b.b.c. as well as to journalism as an institution or

a smith thank you so much correspondent in london for us. well from one sex scandal to another the sex scandal that forced the resignation of former cia chief is snowballing we report on whether the revelations of the affair are part of a bigger pool. extreme. all that is coming out. gracefully. it is a way of life traditionally the people are. also highly skilled and organized.

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scientist who wanted a better way of life for his people but even with the most progressive ideas in education. many that say they don't want to trade the modern life of their beloved . i have returned to the tundra and i actually like it here if you're outside there's fresh air fresh water looks at the site you can see deer it's a joyful sight. a sentiment that hopefully ensures that russia's northern reindeer will have caretakers for generations to come. welcome back israel is considering a full scale military offensive against gaza following the latest round of fire

exchanges where the militants from the occupied territory of around one hundred rockets landed in israel over the weekend while air strikes were launched against sites within gaza activist and writer joe catron says the potential military move requires strong public backing. well we're seeing military interventions on an ongoing basis air strikes have been occurring regularly saturday by now i believe total of seven people have been killed including three children thirteen year old was killed playing soccer east of khan yunis two more children were killed again on saturday and then two young responding were rescued also killed by israeli fire but in terms of ground invasion of the type we saw in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine i believe the israeli government is laying the groundwork for a possible action of that sort and ball store public opinion among israeli

supporters so netanyahu is trying to move some pieces into place but at the present time i think he recognizes they simply aren't there. the u.s. congress is demanding more answers from the f.b.i. over the extramarital affair which forced the cia chief to quit just a few days ago politicians say that david petraeus his resignation hit them like a lightning bolt so now they want to know how much national security was actually compromised and why nobody told them about this sooner and that's to get a journalist james corbett thinks there is a much bigger potential political picture behind the scenes. the question has to be why this scandal is emerging now why is it to bring in general petraeus and what information did he have that would potentially have been interesting to people who would have been interested in bringing him down and this is actually we can start to see some of the pieces of this puzzle emerging as it becomes clearer now that that there is the indication that he will not be testifying in the upcoming

congressional hearings into what happened in benghazi in september and because of that some key information about what happened in benghazi might not come to light including some interesting information that just emerged in recently that in fact last month general petraeus is alleged mistress this is. will was going around giving speeches about how the cia annex in benghazi was being used as a secret prison which is why it was why it was attacked in september so there are some very very big things that are emerging right now and it looks like the operation to take down but true patriots at this particular moment might be motivated by some of those backdoor political dealings rather than the six scandal that is that supposedly made out to be now if you want more details about this story head over to our web site r t dot com and you can learn what sparked the investigation against a former cia boss and whether the end discretions were hushed up in order to save the obama campaign and also for you on our web site and demonstrate and donate

occupy activists push a plan to relieve hundreds of americans from their debt all that for you online. russian police have smashed a terrorist cell here in moscow breaking into a hideout and making arrests more details for you now from our teens in corpus going off. the police of six people or suspected to be members of an international islamic terrorist organization authorities say that they recruited supporters in several mosques across the city spreading radical ideas of the investigators have also knowing the only. nation extremist literature and instructions on how to recruit people in their hideouts the investigation is still underway perhaps that's

why their means haven't yet been released but we do remember a similar story just a few months back in august another man was arrested suspected of being a member of a different international terror network and these are yet new reminders that international terrorism is not something very far away these people could be here operating and scheming right in the russian capital well on to some international headlines in brief now iran has launched a massive air defense drill with fighter jets drones as well as thousands of troops taking part in maneuvers covering nearly the entire eastern half of the country and they come amid escalating tension with israel which of course threatens to strike iran over its nuclear program. dozens of tibetan activists have clashed with police in front of the chinese embassy and india they're protesting against beijing's policies in the region and are calling for tibet's independence and rest of the country has received resin in recent months and including

a tragic wave of self-immolation. britain's brain drain could soon leave the country desperately short of skilled workers that at least is according to a recent report suggesting the number of professionals chasing work abroad has soared in the past two decades archies polly boyko looks at why for some you u.k. citizens home is no longer where the work is. london one of the global financial sense says it was even voted the best place to visit only won it last year but it looks like fewer people want to actually live in britain the u.k. home office has just released a court that says that an increasing number of executives scientists and academics are choosing to leave britain last year alone some one hundred fifty thousand new cases this isn't emigrates a day of the season and now some five million brits live abroad and don't blame the

unpredictable weather or the local cuisine experts now say that it's the high rate of taxation and the cost of living that could drive even more brits to move abroad people with the motor of the economy or people with a lot of property but perhaps with an education perhaps with ambition as well we need to keep them in the country you have to face a life of living in london on a very small on the gross wage maybe even smaller by taxation to a network that's that which we fail as a country and perhaps some sort of system of graduated tax allowances might help us cope perhaps most alarming for the politicians who office findings that the majority of the people that opt out of that you take rat race do so out of an overall lifestyle choice signalling and see discontent with living standards here in britain that's not what. we call a national government is hoping for me consider moving abroad to avoid. the

government slacking off and taking away the good things from the people that think a little bit more even though it's through hard work and dedication over here is that you work until you drop that you don't want to reward us with a point of continuing companies are already complaining that they find it hard to find highly skilled. foreigners to work in the u.k. because of the u.k. government's cap on migration in order to cut immigration into the country now the growing number of young ambitious brits popping back might leave the british government wondering where all the professionals have gone. coming up almost thirty years ago india had suffered the worst industrial disaster in its history when poisonous gas leaks from the your car by plants in that country are special report takes a look at the effects of the bhopal disaster catastrophe that are still being felt today.

as his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains in pains. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but she dishes and familiar dictated that he would take home a can of these animals after his father. he's just made camp at their winter farm stead setting up his new it the traditional two fenian round tent made of diskin. back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving extremes of plus to minus forty degrees celsius is that obvious though there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone in my sister works with my mother

my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here. so on most of us it's simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into the industry now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. and it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all their hearts they hurt the cattle. with more people leaving than coming to the countryside the regions government is having to act making the life of a herd and more attractive they're promising largest subsidies for produce and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day products to ensure the herd it gets a higher fairer price i asked sympathizes with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life day in the public's capital because ill but he no

longer wishes to join them he enjoys his pastoral way of life and looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm with more time on his hands he says matter of fact he can start to look for you wife.